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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Back in my youth, I was in a similar position and ended up with 403b's at both TIAA-CREF and Valic. Looking back years later, IMO you have only one choice and that is TIAA-CREF.
hank, I think you underestimate Ted enormously. The next thing will be your suggesting that if Ted must post links he should go back to posting the naked link. QED.
Authors help others when they have a short one to two sentence instruction concerning their wishes. I recall wanting to post a portion of a John Mauldin newsletter years ago. At the bottom was his instruction of how he preferred that one do this. I …
I've done an extensive Monte Carlo simulation using time series convolutions of non-linear regression of key transfer functions in a simple analog neural network of three interconnected layers. The result is that Ted is an outlier in a set of real d…
"It's inflation in what we need, deflation in what we don't."
Isn't that the way the "free market" works?
investorwords.com/5584/free_market_price.html
free market price - A price determined purely by the forces of supply and demand without inter…
assetbuilder.com/scott_burns/sizing_up_your_401(k)
This is a test. If the link above works, then - the URL icon above the editor window works for web addresses with parentheses but the cut and paste does not. It is not at Burn's website but is a co…
Well, of course not. Just wondering about the language. Of course I wouldn't begin to guess how many Joe MainStreets think all these things are FDIC insured. Perhaps these could be called Floating Money Boxes or something.
It strikes me that the only thing accomplished is that these money markets become places to store money for short periods of time. People will be discouraged from using money markets for long term storage like money markets are savings accounts. I g…
Yea David, that was my mother's favorite line. She had it posted in her work area.
I think things may have changed. At least I get the impression that today's world wants faster results even if some of the behinder stays left behind.
Maybe I didn't understand but I thought the ruling was essentially that they would have to pay for the content they were reselling. (Be more like Comcast, etc.)
Sigh, well the sentence does tickle my curiosity much more than the old title with a link. I don't think this article is one of those needing serious analysis. It's more information than anything else. Perhaps, this time, the amount of text is appro…
Yes, before I retired I ran a lot of free calculators, including Monte Carlo. And no need to apologize to me for your explanations but I made my living doing similar mathematics so I do understand a wee little bit. Two problems: 1) The calculators m…
I recall that a candidate ran for governor in MD was screaming that millionaires were fleeing the state. This was about the bottom of the downturn. It's good to see MD seems to have recovered. But I am sure low information people believed the fleein…
Don't worry. I usually don't have problems when others do. This time I definitely have had a slow response time when I first link to the site. I thought it was just me so I said nothing until I saw this thread.
Hey Mona, Had I been wanting to distract by soliciting sympathy I would have emphasized my "woe is me"s in the first post. You just played a game of "see it came out all right" thus my second post. The original post was about the "ad hominem" type a…
Well Mona, I was not OK. Leg glued back together, 3 1/3 inches shorter, and crippled for life. I'm sorry you didn't see my point but, perhaps. not surprised.
Well, Mona, just a brief question related to an incidence that happened to me. I was crippled by a driver who crossed a highway and hit me head on. He had partied for 48hours and fallen asleep at the wheel. He was employed at the time of the acciden…
I can't wait to wake up and tell you guys about this and that other thread. How about a post in "Off Topic" at about market opening tomorrow. Much coffee on the keyboard will be had by all!
Anna through a gagging glass
OK, first thing that came to mind was replacing the Intel processor without replacing the motherboard. I never knew anyone who actually did that and don't remember exactly which ones 486 or early Pentium?. Some things are great in modular and others…
Burns has been harping on this for a long, long time. I first saw it in a column he used to write for the Dallas newspaper. The "income" tax on SS can be viewed In many ways. What's the saying "money is fungible". To understand my point, consider t…
>Reply to @msf: "What makes this choice even more compelling is that once the higher earning spouse reaches Full Retirement Age (FRA - somewhere between 65 and 67), this person can take 1/2 the full retirement benefits of the other spouse, but on…
Well Mark, I'm a lurker that visits almost every day. All the things you mention are among the things things I like about this website.
I like to read the various posts from the various characters that contribute real content to MFO. I don't find …
